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HUNT - LIT ELEMENTS
HUNT - Literary elements
| word | meaning |
|---|---|
| biography | a person's life story written by someone else |
| climax | turning point of the story/play to which the action leads |
| protagonist | main character who faces a problem |
| antagonist | character who poses a problem |
| bibliography | a list of writings at the end of research |
| setting | a place where a story takes place |
| narrator | one who tells the story |
| fiction | a piece of literature that is not true; false |
| nonfiction | a piece of literature/writing that is true |
| characters | those people/things that are of the literary work |
| opinion | one's own personal beliefs/feelings (cannot be proven) |
| author's purpose | the reason the writer/author created the literary work; to entertain, perform, analyze or inform the audience (readers) |
| predict | to state what the reader thinks will happen next |
| poetry | emphasizes a line as the part of composition (wrtiting) which may contain emotional, imaginative and a regular rhythm |
| figurative language | words used to describe that express some truth beyond the literal use (similes, metaphors, personification) |
| imagery | language in writing that uses the some or all of the 5 senses to understand the scenes |
| expository writing | writing which aims to inform/explain (news articles/how-to papers/research) |
| genre | a division of literature: the main ones are pose, poetry and drama |
| drama | a writing designed for theatrical presentations |
| theme | main idea/message of a piece fo writing |
| tone | reflection of the writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject |
| mood | feeling or atmosphere of a piece of writing |
| simile | figure of speech that compares two basically unlike things using "like" or "as" |
| metaphor | figure of speech that compares with seemingly unlike things without using "like" or "as" Ex: He is a rock! |
| stanza | group of lines placed together in a poem with a space between each individual set of lines |
| alliteration | having the same initial (starting) sounds |
| autobiography | the story of a person's life written by that person (him/herself) |
| hyperbole | extreme exaggeration; Example: "mile high ice cream cone" |
| motivation | drive; a need/desire causing someone to act |
| infer | to come to a conclusion after looking at facts/circumstances; guess |
| synonym | meaning "same"; a word meaning the same as another word (ill and sick) |
| antonyms | words of opposite meaning (cold and hot) |
| summarize | to tell/discuss the main points of a topic/writing; tying it all up |
| main idea | big part/picture of the literature or story, major point of a writing or story |
| sequence of events | an order of things that happen in a writing or story |
| personification | giving something the qualities of a human being/person (to make a car talk - Cars Movie) |
| flashback | to go back to an earlier memory in time |
| rhyme | one or more words with the same sounds (car/tar) |
| repetition | the act of repeating over and over |
| descriptive | language that describes a scene, smell, etc. most often using adjectives (like imagery) |
| narrative | a personal story |
| suffix | an affix at the end of the word |
| analyze | study/break down of information for better understanding |
| inform | to tell something; make something known (one of the reasons for an author's writing) |
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rosilyn.hunt
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